The spread of coronavirus has led to a lot of changes in our research group over the last week. As we are getting used to a new normal, our priority is keeping ourselves and the people around us healthy and safe.
The Norwegian Environmental Agency (Miljødirektoratet) has in a recent report to the Ministry of Environment suggested several measures to deal with the illegal transport of used electronics and Electronic waste (E-waste) from Norway. The E-waste topic was also central during the workshop “Pollution: Monitoring and Policy” organized by members of the AnthroTox project during the Oslo Life Science Conference held earlier this spring. Participants as well as the organizers of the workshop learned how international regulations on pollutants, e.g. the Stockholm and Basel Convention, are followed up in Tanzania and Norway.
An important part of doing research is to communicate our knowledge to a wider audience, and therefore we are happy to be able to participate at public events where we get the chance to meet people and share our work.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 global goals, set to ensure a sustainable future for everyone. The goals are intended to be achieved by 2030, which means that this is the decade for action, and that was the main message at this year’s SDG Conference in Bergen. This national conference gathers people working with sustainability from all parts of society: politicians, businesses, entrepreneurs and of course academics from every discipline. Our group member, Clare, joined the conference as a part of the University of Oslo delegation, and was one of few biologists attending...
Our blog activity is expected to increase in 2020 (weekly updates!), and we are also now on twitter: @BorgaGroup!
Erik Bjørnstad Engblad from the Department of Social Sciences has written a nice article about AntroTox and our interdisciplinary, and currently also very relevant, work. Read here (in Norwegian) about the anthropological fieldwork of Samwel Moses Ntapanta in Tanzania, Maja Nipens work at the Deparment of Chemistry, my work here at the Department of Biosciences, and how we fulfil each other with different focus and expertise!
Clare Andvik, from our research group, has won the University of Oslo's sustainability prize!
An important part of research is communicating it to the general public. Our research group has been involved in a range of activities in the last few months to do just that.
Borgå Ecotox Group and Nansen Legacy at Forskningstorget 2019 in Oslo
June was a busy month for our research group, with no less than 5 students graduating with a master's of science in the same week!
My last field trip to Tanzania involved water sampling, fish dissection, dissection of crabs and various mussels, wading in polluted mangrove sediment, and a fair amount of sweat
Master student Emelie Skogsberg travelled to Tromsø to the Arctic Frontiers conference.
Our Master students present their research at the NSFT winter meeting in Beitostølen.
Two interesting PhD positions available in the Human Impact: Pollution task of the Nansen Legacy project, one at UiO and one at UNIS.
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